Jack Toole said ...

Thanks! I'll try to work on more documentation - with the competition, we've been focusing on features first.
Deadzone control affects how much movement is necessary for the program to actually move the mouse or joystick. If you turn deadzone control to 0 (all the way left) and hold your hand still, you'll see the mouse move up and down slightly over time. These are movements that are too slow to be filtered with the low pass filter, and instead are removed with reducing the movement magnitude by an amount, which we refer to as the deadzone. Too small of a deadzone will result in the cursor jittering when you hold your hand still, because of accelerometer noise. Too large a deadzone will make the mouse feel less responsive, since slower movements will be reduced significantly. If your hand is shaky, a higher deadzone can help maintaining the mouse position. If your hand is unnaturally still, a lower deadzone will allow for finer movement control.

Jack Toole said ...

Thanks everyone for your votes! We won 2nd place in the Co-Op Design Challenge!
There probably won't be any updates for a week as I finish up my summer co-op with TI, but after that I intend to add some functionality from time to time. If there's anything that could be improved, let me know!

Jolie.john said ...

where could i find a detailed documentation for flying chronos mouse ? and could you please tell me about the filter equation used in the code , how is it done ? last , i really can't get what is the calibration for ?
But great project :D
Thank you :)

Robert-debian said ...

HI, the video looks great and I would like to use the ez430-sensors for a mass spectrometry prototype control. However there is a little problem: Flying Mouse reports "RF point simpliciTI error".
I'm using http://sourceforge.net/projects/ez430chronos/ firmware v2.1

Bwn said ...

Robert-debian- I got it to work in Windows 7 by recompiling in VS2010 and changing the com_port value in com.cpp to whatever COM port the eZ430-ChronosAP appears as in your Device Manager (in the Control Panel)

-- 20:13, 21 April 2013 (CDT)

Eriksie said ...

I restarted my notebook and then plug in my RF point and then started up flyingmouse.exe but it still says that there was a calibration error. Chronos kit can find the RF point but flyingmouse can't. What can I do now?